Epistemological aspects of the use of large linguistic models in artificial intelligence
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The two great phenomena of the digital era that present new epistemological questions are the extension of the Internet in the Web 2.0 version and the very recent emergence of generative artificial intelligence and “deep learning” that offers a generalized use of large linguistic models. The hypothesis in this paper is that the analytically oriented epistemology that has worked on the phenomenon of the Internet has done so taking as its model the
testimony as the centre of gravity of social epistemology. This model is not adequate for the new devices. The argument is that the epistemic authority (or lack of authority) of these devices is not based on some explicit or implicit contract of mutual recognition in exchanges of information or knowledge, but on the extensive socio-technical processes of design, formatting and data feeding, directed training and feedback with massive social use. This leads us to the need for an epistemology of massive hybrid agents.
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